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    About Time to Dress Upper Middle Class

    9 May ’14 /

    SPOILERS Despite all the hoo-ha over films such as Blue Jasmine and Stoker contemporary is still pretty much overlooked as a form of costume design. If it’s invisible, well, nobody notices it, and if it’s designer it becomes all about ‘the fashion’ (OMG TOTES WANT THOSE SHOES). We are currently in an age when costume design means period and sci-fi. It comes to the extent that if a costumer wants to tell a story through contemporary attire, he/she needs either a director with a key grasp of semiotics, or one that doesn’t care less about semiotics and offers a degree of autonomy. Watching About Time we presume that Richard Curtis…

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    Sole a Catinelle: Q&A with Costume Designer Marina Roberti

    28 Feb ’14 /

    Marina Roberti is the costume designer of the Italian box office hit Sole a Catinelle. She has worked in the US with the likes of Milena Canonero, Sandy Powell and Dante Ferretti… How did you become a costume designer? When I was a kid I was a bumbler at school. I spent all the time drawing and reading. My parents were kind of worried so they decided to enroll me at a fashion college in Turin, my home town. During my last school year they took us to Rome to visit the National Film School. Next year I decided to try and join the school. I thought I could never…

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    The Hangover 2 Image Debuts: More Costume Wackiness to Come

    29 Nov ’10

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    21 Aug ’13
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    Costume in The Great Gatsby: Use Your Imagination

    23 May ’13 /

    Baz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin bring us the twenties reloaded.

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    5 Jan ’12

    The Great Gatsby: A Conversation with Catherine Martin

    20 May ’13

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    Anna Karenina Coming to Banana Republic: Costume Fashion?

    30 Jun ’12 /

    Banana Republic have teamed up with Anna Karenina costume designer Jacqueline Durran to create an exclusive collection inspired by the upcoming movie.

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    The Lone Ranger: Never take off the Mask

    30 Jul ’13

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    12 Aug ’11

    First Official Image: Sherlock Holmes 2

    15 Jan ’11
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    Noomi Rapace in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

    8 Dec ’11 /

    Playing computer hacker, Lisbeth Salander, Noomi Rapace embodies the character in such a way that picturing anyone else in the role is nearly impossible.

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    The Bourne Supremacy: Karl Urban’s Tunic Shirt

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